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very well suited for ship-building. It is a good place for
launching, for starting out, and as a harbor of refuge
for these ships. There is, in fact, no better place on
this coast. Hence, according to Spangberg’s
directions, a house was built on the “Cat” for the officers,
and barracks and huts for the men. For these
buildings our men hauled the clay, made the tiles, brought
wood from a distance of three to four miles, and
carried fresh water from a distance of about two miles;
for although the Koschka is situated at the mouth of
the Okhota, the water in the river is very salt on
account of the tide-water. Moreover, we have built
store-houses and a powder magazine. I enclose three
diagrams, showing what has been done in the years
1735, 1736, and 1737. My men in Okhotsk are now
preparing ship-biscuits for the voyages, and are floating
the necessary timber for the boats twenty miles down
the river. They burn the charcoal used in forging, and
the necessary pitch must be prepared and brought from
Kamchatka, as there is no pitch-pine in the vicinity
of Okhotsk.
In addition to this we are obliged to make our own
dog-sledges, and on these bring our provisions from
Yudomskaya Krest to the Urak landing. There is,
too, much other work in Okhotsk that must be done in
preference to ship-building, for it is quite impossible
to get anything in the way of food except the legal
military provisions, consisting of flour and groats. I
must state, in this connection, that in the summer some
cattle are sent with the transports from Yakutsk.
These are obtained at the regular price and are
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